Is President Barrow angry with Civil Servants, as manifested in his Koriteh message to Banjul Muslim Elders at the State House? Why the anger? Or was it triggered by the information below? President Barrow’s failure to name the SIS as those working the State Intelligence undermining his government?
Open Gambia Platform was contacted by one of our regular SIS field officers, who raised concerns about a stolen laptop containing classified Intelligence documents at the SIS headquarters in Banjul, which was reported by Lamtoro News a few weeks ago.
According to our SIS contact officer, the Senegalese Intelligence agency was linked to the exclusive political operations entrenching President Barrow to power. This operation spearheaded and masterminded the 2021 election fraud that led to Barrows’s victory. The stolen laptop was part of other electronic intelligence equipment and software linked to a network the Senegalese intelligence agency provided during the previous Senegalese administration under former President Macky Sall.
The SIS field officer further disclosed that the information circulating within the senior agency officers revealed that the operations have to do with counter-espionage from unknown political interest groups (not known Political parties), which might have foreign backing to meddle in the coming 2026 elections. The officer further stated that the intelligence documents contained in the laptop are only known to a few agents close to Director General of SIS, Ousman Sowe; the officer also said that DG Sowe kept this particular operation a highly top secret and only known to his close close close circle of agents.
The SIS officer further disclosed that outside interest groups might have contracted an agent linked to the operations with access to the information. The officer also said that the outside interest groups might have operated independently, leading to equipment theft and making it difficult for state intelligence to detect the people responsible. The laptop is not stolen for its hardware value; instead, it’s for the intelligence documents it contains.
This is a classical show of incompetence for the Director General of SIS, Ousman Sowe, to have accepted electronic devices and network operations from Senegal, fully knowing the risk of undermining the Gambia’s national security and putting our country at risk by making it more vulnerable to other countries. We know that Countries share intelligence, but no country allows a back channel into its operational intelligence network. The SIS officer further stated that even within the SIS agency itself, the information management system is kept a top secret and only accessible to agents based on the security protocol of need-to-know bases!
Therefore, it could be concluded that the Director General of SIS, Ousman Sowe, accepted Senegalese intelligence advances and interference for this special operation designed to rig the 2021 Presidential election in favour of President Barrow regardless of the risk to the Gambia’s national security. The SIS Officer stated that the Director General of SIS likely accepted the laptops and security technology from Senegal so that Senegalese intelligence could access the operations monitoring to enable the election fraud.
Open Gambia platform contacted four other senior or mid-level SIS operatives to shed more light on the incident. However, two of them still failed to respond to our message; the other agent acknowledged the report’s plausibility from our contact but couldn’t provide any other facts. The fourth agent that we didn’t know his true identity, discontinued communication because we refused to comply with the specific conditions he demanded from us.
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